El cronista Pedro de Escavias

There was much excitement on the small mountain farm. All the animals were waiting for the new horse to be brought in. They expected him to be snow-white, tall and thin. When the trailer with the horse arrived at the farm, Katja the Cow saw him. The animals were convinced that they would meet a unicorn. But would they?

In 1981, on the basis of documentary evidence, the authors identified the site of the first public theatre in Alcala de Henares, dating from the time of Cervantes. The building, which had been most recently in use as a cinema, showed evidence of four periods of dramatic activity: the original corral de comedias, an 18th century horse-shoe amphitheatre, an elliptical amphitheatre of Roman period, and the cinema. Research in archives provided a wealth of documentation up to the 19th century, covering all aspects of theatrical life, from the original contract for the construction of the corral...

Sólo un cervantista de la erudición de Edward C. Riley podía realizar una síntesis clara, rigurosa y ágil de todo lo que sabemos acerca del clásico absoluto de las letras españolas. El profesor Riley sitúa al Quijote en la biografía del autor y en la sociedad de su época, lo examina a la luz de la teoría y la práctica de la novela del Siglo de Oro y lleva a cabo un análisis literario de singular finura y profundidad.

Prudence tiene seis años y está harta de recoger, de darse prisa, de obedecer... Por eso, cuando su madre la llama, ella prefiere escaparse a su propio mundo, un mundo hecho imágenes fantásticas y coloridas en el que no caben las palabras. Menos mal que el camino es de ida y vuelta...